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Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering/Bachelor of Science

Course code: 3282 + Course abbreviation: BMechatronicsEng/BSc + Total credit points required: 240 + 5 years full-time, 10 years part-time + Managing faculty: Engineering

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This program provides an opportunity to combine studies in several areas of science with mechatronics engineering. In the double-degree course structure, restrictions have been imposed in terms of prescribed units to ensure that students pursue studies that suitably equip them for the subsequent years in science and engineering.

Course structure

Students must complete major and minor sequences towards the science component of this double degree. Students may pursue a science major sequence in astrophysics, mathematics, physics or computer science. There are two streams allowing students to undertake either a generic or a computer science sequence.

In order to pursue a particular sequence, students must take the necessary science prerequisites in their first year of study. For details of major and minor sequences in science disciplines refer to the ‘Science areas of studies and sequences - Clayton’ in the Faculty of Science section of this handbook. Students should contact the appropriate science or engineering course adviser before enrolling in any stage of the double-degree program, to ensure that the program they wish to follow will satisfy prerequisites necessary for higher years. In some special cases, students may choose to overload at stages 2 or 3 if they have not completed all of the prerequisites for their chosen science major sequences.

Course requirements

Students must complete 240 points of units as listed for each branch below. The choice of either MTH1020 and MTH1030 or MTH1030 and MTH2010 in first year is determined by the level of preparation from VCE studies, and students who have not completed Year 12 Physics should take PHS1080 rather than PHS1011. See the Faculty of Science section of this handbook under ‘Mathematics’ for details of MTH1020 and MTH1030 and under ‘Physics’ for details of PHS1011 and PHS1080.

Students in the double degree must complete either two major sequences in different science disciplines or a double major and a minor sequence in a different science discipline.

Students may graduate with a Bachelor of Science, or apply for admission to an honours year in science, following the completion of an approved combination of at least 144 points of units, including all of the normal science requirements for that branch of the Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Engineering, with at least 96 points of science units and no more than 48 points of level 1 science units.

Should a student discontinue the double-degree program and seek to take out the Bachelor of Engineering, it will be necessary to complete all of the requirements of that single degree.

Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering/Bachelor of Science

The engineering component requires not less than 132 points that must be obtained in units prescribed by this course list, and the science component requires at least 108 points.

Levels 1, 2 and 3 units from the engineering component of the program will be offered from 2006 and level 4 units from 2007.

Stage 1 -- All sequences
Stage 2 -- Generic sequence
Stage 2 -- Computer science sequence
Stage 3 -- Generic sequence
Stage 3 -- Computer science sequence
Stage 4 -- Generic sequence
Stage 4 -- Computer science sequence
  • TRC3000, TRC3300, TRC3500, TRC3801
  • 24 points of approved science units to complete either a major sequence in mathematics or a double major sequence in computer science
Stage 5 -- All sequences

    * Any sequence in science may be taken, provided the appropriate sequence requirements and prerequisites are completed. In some cases, students may elect to seek approval for an overloaded course of up to 12 points at stage 2 or 3 to enable these requirements to be completed in addition to the required science units at stage 2.
    ** Students considering entry to honours in computer science need to complete at least 24 points of level 3 computer science units, which may require an overloaded course to be approved if a double major in computer science is not completed at stage 4.

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